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	10 most powerful cloud companies Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Aerohive Corporate Brochure The way that Wi-Fi is being used and the requirements on an enterprise Wi-Fi network are going through a fundamental and generational change, so much so that we are calling it Wireless 2.0. It's not a new term, but it is a relevant one. Read now. In this Issue WAN optimization: Network vs. application layer optimization Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers AT&T, China Telecom to share infrastructure Vodafone buys unified communication consultant Bluefish Sprint, Clearwire lay out deals on LTE, WiMax, funding Maybe you can trash your boss online after all RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Systems Which desktop virtualization product is the most bandwidth efficient? Click to continue WAN optimization: Network vs. application layer optimization The application layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) stack has long been regarded as a focal point for wide area network (WAN) optimization. Efforts to optimize application delivery were centered here because the pain was rooted in optimizing only a handful of specific applications at branch or remote offices. Read More Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE Clearwire plans to raise as much as $345 million in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployment and other activities. Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL Next-Gen Firewalls for HIED: SUNY College at Old Westbury SUNY College at Old Westbury implemented Next-Gen Firewalls for bandwidth management to optimize traffic for video streaming and other uses. Read now. Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers Consumer Watchdog has called for a U.S. government investigation of Carrier IQ, the maker of tracking software for mobile phones, and its users. Read More AT&T, China Telecom to share infrastructure AT&T and China Telecom signed an agreement on Wednesday to share telecommunications infrastructure across the U.S. and China, in a move meant to help their business customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More Vodafone buys unified communication consultant Bluefish Vodafone's Global Enterprise is strengthening its professional services arm by acquiring British consultant Bluefish Communications, which will form the basis of a new unified communication and collaboration practice, the operator said on Thursday. Read More Sprint, Clearwire lay out deals on LTE, WiMax, funding Sprint Nextel may help finance Clearwire's LTE network and keep offering WiMax service through 2015 under a set of agreements worth as much as US$1.6 billion that the companies laid out on Thursday. Read More Maybe you can trash your boss online after all The Wall Street Journal has a must-read story this morning that undercuts the conventional wisdom that a non-union employee who gets fired for trashing his or her employer online has no legal recourse. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cornell professor: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' Gartner predictions for 2012 10 most powerful cloud companies Cracking ND5 ... with Google?! Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Dec. 2 2011's biggest security snafus Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year How stupid can cell carriers be? Really stupid Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape
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